Open House...

Ainsley had her open house this week...

Thankfully the only problem at middle school involves her locker... she has one of those "tricky" lockers that seems to work one time but not any other times.  The first couple weeks were oh so frustrating for her... it wouldn't open... she'd get frustrated... start to freak out... and the bell would ring... making more pressure... then finding a teacher to use the key on it.  We had many evenings discussing possible solutions... working on breathing moments to let her "get control" of the situation with out getting stressed and so on.

It's been Locker Woes from day one with the problem opening it and having a Locker "buddy" that doesn't share the same love of color coding and organizing as she does!  So she could not wait for us to come and see what she was doing wrong...

And of course first try it opened right up... she closed it and did it again... it stuck and so we figured it out that when you are pulling up on latch it moves the lock combo and doesn't work.  As long as she puts the combo back to the last number it should open... The inside, oh my mess... the bottom was worse... locker buddy's wrappers, left over bags that supplies came in etc.  Any guesses as to which area is her's?..

We were able to meet all her teachers which was nice to put a face with the name.  Her favorite class by far is ceramics. She got to show us her current project... a vase.  Her's is the one with the two handles in the back of the art locker... super cute!